Nintendo Shows us how Terrible we are at Mario…Again
By Joey Davidson | 2
New Super Mario Bros. U
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This time around, Nintendo achieves the same outcome on a different level with Yoshi and the Squirrel Suit. It’s still stunning, and I still think I’m genuinely awful at Mario games again.
I recently reviewed New Super Mario Bros. U, an article that you’ll find linked over on the right of this post, and while there were things that rubbed me the wrong way, I did praise the game for its ability to present classic Mario mechanics all over again. If you’ve played these games with any regularity, you know that there are a few ways to ingest them. You can run from one end to the next without using any finesse at all, or you can hunt and seek out each and every play method and secret the titles offer.
New Super Mario Bros. U, as Nintendo is showing with these videos, can be played in all sorts of ways. You could run from one end of each level to the next without collecting much more than a few coins, or you can perfect the act of collecting every single coin without touching the ground once. That’s a great achievement that rings true to the level design of the game itself.
It may be built from recycled assets, but New Super Mario Bros. U is still pretty cool.
